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TroposchemmalogiaTroposchēmalogia
Troposchemmalogia: Tropes and figures; or, A treatise of the metaphors, allegories, and express similitudes, &c. contained in the Bible of the Old and New Testament To which is prefixed, divers arguments to prove the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures wherein also 'tis largely evinced, that by the great whore, mystery Babylon is meant the Papal hierarchy, or present state and church of Rome. Philologia sacra, the second part. Wherein the schemes, or figures in Scripture, are reduced under their proper heads, with a brief explication of each. Together with a treatise of types, parables, &c. with an improvement of them parallel-wise. By B. KTroposchēmalogia: Tropes and figures; or, A treatise of the metaphors, allegories, and express similitudes, &c. contained in the Bible of the Old and New Testament To which is prefixed, divers arguments to prove the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures wherein also 'tis largely evinced, that by the great whore, mystery Babylon is meant the Papal hierarchy, or present state and church of Rome. Philologia sacra, the second part. Wherein the schemes, or figures in Scripture, are reduced under their proper heads, with a brief explication of each. Together with a treatise of types, parables, &c. with an improvement of them parallel-wise. By B. K
London: printed by John Darby, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And tho there is a great difference between Metaphorical or Allegorical, and Typical Scriptures; yet we thought an Essay to open the most eminent Types found in the Old-Testament, would well suit with this sublime Subject: And because some, for want of Study or Learning, may not readily understand the Difference that is between them, we will give you here the Sense of the Learned upon it,1 particularly between what is Allegorical and Typical, (we take Allegory here as Divines do, who take it not as Grammarians or Rhetoricians, for a continued Discourse of many Figures together) properly, or strictly taken: For sometimes an Allegory may be taken largely, and so may comprehend ⟨image 4⟩whatsoever is figurative, whether Typical, Tropological, Analogical, &c. as the Apostle hath it in Gal. 4. speaking of Abraham's two Sons, Isaac and Ishmael, which is yet properly a Type, differeth from Types, or Typical Scripture, thus:
And tho there is a great difference between Metaphorical or Allegorical, and Typical Scriptures; yet we thought an Essay to open the most eminent Types found in the Old-Testament, would well suit with this sublime Subject: And because some, for want of Study or Learning, may not readily understand the Difference that is between them, we will give you here the Sence of the Learned upon it,1 particularly between what is Allegorical and Typical, (we take Allegory here as Divines do, who take it not as Grammarians or Rhetoricians, for a continued Discourse of many Figures together) properly, or strictly taken: For sometimes an Allegory may be taken largely, and so may comprehend ⟨image 4⟩whatsoever is figurative, whether Typical, Tropological, Analogical, &c. as the Apostle hath it in Gal. 4. speaking of Abraham's two Sons, Isaac and Ishmael, which is yet properly a Type, differeth from Types, or Typical Scripture, thus:
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